Improvement in fastenings for corsets



waited tatea @stent @wie M. P. BRAY, or ANsoNramohonnncTtour.

Letters Patent No, 100,970, dated'Ma/rck 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR CORSETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, M; I. BRAY, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,

- have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corset-Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descliption thereof',

which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specitication.

This invention relates to corset-fastenings, and consist-s' in certain improvements thereon which will b specified hereinafter.

In the accompanying -drawings- Figures 1 and 2 represent the parts of which the fastening is composed, a part being attached to one side of the corset. Each part is made of two springs clasped together.

Figure 3 is across-section through lig. l, on the line :c x.

Figure 4 is a cross-section through tig. 2, on the line y y. 4

Figure 5 is a portion of one of the larger springs,

showing the notches or indentations for holding the v contact with each other, while a recess is left for the small spring, as seen in the drawing.

The clasps on the part fig. 1 have attached to them pins or .buttons F, and on the other part, fig. 2, have slotted prolongations g. These engage with each other and form completely the fastening when the corset is in use.

To obviate the necessity of riveting the clasps to the spring A and preventing their slipping on the` springs, I form indentations H in one or both edges of the spring-A, as seen in fig. 5, into which the clasps are made to t.

I am aware that corset-fastenings have heretofore been made with `double springs, but such springs have been so fastened together that their elasticity is in a measure destroyed. By fastening them with a single rivet, or at one point at either end, as at C, figs. l and z, the elasticity of the two springs is secured throughout their entire length, thus rendering this fastening much more exible and durable than those made il the ordinary manner.

Having thus described myrinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The auxiliary spring Afarranged upon and secured at one end to the spring B by a single rivet, C, the

two splingsbeing held together by clasps I) shouldered at e, all said parts being constructed, arranged, and adjusted together as set forth.

The above specification of my invent-ion signed by by me this 16th day of December, 1869.

M. P. BRAY.

\Vitnesses:

Geo. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. Ronnrs. 

